Part A : Choose the best answer for each question.

1.In simple animals, ……………. reflex movement or involuntary response to stimuli.

2. Although the weather in Martha`s Vineyard isn`t ………… to have a year-round tourist season, it has become a favorite summer resort.

3. According to the wave theory, ………. population of the Americas may have been the result of a number of separate migrations.

4. It is presumed that rules governing the sharing of food influenced …………. that the earliest cultures evolved.

5. Calculus, ……………… elegant and economical symbolic system, can reduce complex problems to simple terms.

6. Canada does not require that U.S. citizens obtain passports to enter the country, and ……….. .

7. The poet, …………… just beginning to be recognized as an important influence at the time of his death.

8. …………… the formation of the sun, the planets and other stars began with the condensation of an interstellar cloud.

9. As a general rule, the standard of living ………………. by the average output of each person in society.

10. The Consumer Price Index lists ……….. .

11. The Ford Theater where Lincoln was shot ………. .

Part B : Read the following sentences. In each sentence, choose the underline word or group of words that is NOT correct.

12. A swarm of locusts is responsible at the consumption of enough plant material to feed a million and a half people.

13. Oyster farming has been practice in most parts of the word for many years.

14. It was Shirley Temple Black which represented her country in the United Nations and later became an ambassador.

15. The prices at chain stores are as reasonable, if not more reasonable, as those at discount stores.

16. Historically, there has been only two major factions in the Republican Party_the liberals and the conservatives.

17. Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass as a tribute to the Civil War soldiers who had laid on the battlefields and whom he had seen while serving as an army nurse.

18. The Chinese were the first and large ethnic group to work on the construction of the transcontinental railroad system.

19. The range of plant life on a mountainside is a results of differences in temperature and precipitation at varying altitudes.

20. The more the relative humidity reading rises, the worst the heat affects us.

21. because correlations are not causes, statistical data which are extremely easy to misuse.

22. Despite of many attempts to introduce a universal language, notably Esperanto and Idiom Neutral, the effort has met with very little success.

23. As every other nation, the United States used to define its unit of currency, the dollar, in term of the gold standard.

24. John Dewey thought that children will learn better through participating in experiences rather than through listening to lecture.

25. Some methods to prevent soil erosion are plowing parallel with the slopes of hills, to plant trees on unproductive and rotating crops.